Big Hero 6: How one of Marvel's most bizarre comics got Disney-fied

From theverge Guardians of the Galaxy did
more than break the 2014 box office – it proved that Disney’s Marvel
Studios could turn even the most obscure and weird set of comic book
characters into international sensations. Now, the Mouse House hopes to
do it again with its first animated feature-length Marvel movie: Big Hero 6.

The narrative of the original Big Hero 6 comic series,
launched in 1998, was straight-forward enough: in response to the
nuclear bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima, the Japanese government
assembled a squadron of superheroes to fight for the Emperor. The team
consisted of Hiro, a mini-Tony Stark of sorts; his Godzilla-morphing
robot Baymax; Honey Lemon, a cross-dimensional secret agent; Go Go
Tomago, an ex-con with a fiery temper—literally; and a couple familiar X-Men faces—Silver Samurai and Sunfire.

Inspired heavily by Japanese culture, readers of the comic book were
treated to some pretty out-there characters. For instance, Hiro lost his
mom to the Everwraith, a spirit made up of all the dead souls from the
nuclear strikes; Honey Lemon wielded a magic purse full of wormholes;
and chef-turned-superhero Wasabi No-Ginger's weapon of choice was a
sushi knife.Big Hero 6 was an obscure candidate for Disney’s first animated Marvel movie
But Hiro and his friends didn’t bring in the comic book bucks, and the series was shelved after less than a year. In 2008, X-Men
writer Chris Claremont and cover artist David Nakayama briefly brought
the team back to life for a limited miniseries, but again the comic saw
little success. The under-the-radar series was an obscure candidate for
Disney’s first animated Marvel movie.
But the studio was looking in unlikely corners for its next project.
"We were on the hunt for something unique, something we hadn’t seen
before, but also appealing and huggable," director Don Hall told Bloomberg last month. He found what he was looking for in Big Hero 6.
To make the comic palatable to the American viewer, Hall and his team
completely made over the property, transforming it into something that
resembles a Disney film through and through. The big picture rendition
gravitates towards two members of Big Hero 6: Hiro and Baymax.
And in true Disney form, the narrative has been tweaked to center around
a tragic death—Hiro loses his brother—and the unlikely friendship
between a boy and his robot. If it weren’t for the title card slotted in
the movie’s credits, one might never realize that a quirky Marvel comic
lay at the movie’s core.
As Walt Disney Animation releases the film in theaters today, we take a look at how Disney re-imagined the heroes of Big Hero 6 for mainstream audiences.

In the comics, 13-year-old Hiro is a gifted young inventor and the
Dr. Frankenstein to a synthetic, morphing battlebot named Baymax. The
prodigy declined an invitation to join Big Hero 6 until he lost
his mother. Disney cut this narrative, instead framing Hiro as a
rebellious boy genius with a penchant for gambling on back-alley robot
fights. In the film version, Hiro’s brother dies in a freak accident,
which sparks his bond with Baymax.

BAYMAX

Disney’s marshmallow-like Baymax is nothing like his original iteration.
The Baymax from the comics is Hiro’s Hulk-like bodyguard, programmed
with material from the boy’s deceased father’s brain. Baymax has the
ability to transform on command into a dragon, and, in later
installments, into a human. Naturally, Disney wanted something softer to
tug at the heartstrings. After touring various robotics labs and
consulting with experts, Hall and artist Lisa Keene created the
kid-friendly medical robot we see in the trailers, designed to tend to
Hiro’s well-being before he’s upgraded with armor, rocket fists and kung
fu skills.

Go Go Tomago tears up the screen, but she was way more of a badass on
the page. Originally conceived as a rough-and-tough street orphan who
got on the wrong side of the Yakuza, Go Go joined up with Big Hero 6
when the government offered her a get-out-of-jail-free card. She gets
her name from the "Go Go Tomago" suit, a government-designed get-up that
gives her the ability to launch herself into enemies like a fiery
wrecking ball. The Disney incarnation turns Go Go into an adrenaline
junkie who’s comfortable in a car chase and says things like, "Woman
up." Oh, and she’s basically a super-powered speed skater now, thanks to
the film’s version of her power suit.

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